Act II- May 31th 11:59

Act II is actually beginning to make everything interesting compared to Act 1. Many secrets are being revealed in this part of the story. We discovered that Mrs.Linde and Krogstad had a thing in the past suppressed because she needed to be with another man for his money to take care of her family. Mrs.Linde originally was supposed to stop the letter from Krogstad to Helmer revealing Nora’s blundered actions. Instead, she lets the letter get to him.
I dislike Mrs.Linde because she can’t even help her friend Nora cover up her tracks. Mrs.Linde is one incompetent best friend. Her idea on thinking Helmer should find out because “it’s for the best”, maybe the wrong choice and could result into something tragic. Does Nora dare take the thought of committing suicide by the end of the story? Another question worth keeping in mind is “Will Nora and Helmer work things out and seek their old love again?”

My Act I Post

So our class has reached Act 2 in “A Doll’s House”, which seems like a pretty hectic story so far. I find myself not a big fan of the main character Nora, a woman jauntily at most moments and a nervous wreck at others because she holds a huge secret. Her actions cause much catastrophe, like for example lying to her husband, borrowing money and according to the story “Poisoning her children” because their role model has committed a crime of forging her father’s signature. Nora also has a problem squandering her husband Torvald’s money and since it’s around Christmas time she wants more money to spend.  In my opinion I don’t have a great feeling about Nora and Torvald’s marriage. Torvald’s behavior to his wife makes her seem less of a person and more of an airhead or even an animal.          
A theme I find connecting with this story is role of women. A role of women can relate to “A Doll’s House” because Nora is a women that is under her husband. Torvald definitely wears the pants in the relationship and expresses that by calling her “scatterbrain”, “featherbrain”, or even a “squirrel.” Also when the part in the story of Nora talking to her husband about doing the Tarantella and the dress she says something to Torvald like, “Aren’t you happy I’m doing this for you” and he replies “Your suppose to doing this for me.” Nora is kept to herself and is afraid to open her mouth, instead she is drowning in the huge lie she is keeping from him. A symbol of the story can give is the timing of year. For example the timing of the year can express that the year is coming to an end and that a fresh start can occur, like for Nora maybe her and her family will find a way around the situations of borrowed money, crime committed and blackmail.  

A Doll's House: 1st Blog

Hello everyone, my name is Isabella or Izzy for short, if you are feeling lazy. I currently walk the halls of Bloomfield High School as a sophomore in Miss. Santos’s English class. Do not judge my blogging, I don’t know how to blog and do not see the point of this, but I do as I am told. So far this year, the only topic I found interesting, was class discussions about stories we have read. In class, we are reading “A Doll’s House” by a Norwegian play writer, Hernik Ibsen. Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway . His most famous plays were, “The Wild Duck,” “The Doll’s House” and “Ghosts”. Hernik Ibsen also spent several years employed at Det norske Theater, where he was involved in the production of more than 145 plays. In my opinion, the title of “A Doll’s House” has to do with a person who greatly struggles with internal and external conflicts. This may relate to the author through problems he may have faced in his own life. “A Doll’s House” may even have a deeper hidden meaning to its title.